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January 05, 2019

GRAVITY FALLS

GRAVITY
FALLS

(Disney Channel, Disney XD, June 15, 2012-February 15,
2016)

Disney Television Animation

While a student at California
Institute of the Arts, Alex
Hirsch created an 11-minute low-budget student film which was inspired by
his childhood summer vacations with his twin sister. Disney called Hirsch in to
pitch a show based on the pilot and greenlit Gravity Falls. The series centered on Dipper Pines (Jason Ritter) and his twin
sister Mabel (Kristen Schaal) as they are
dropped off to stay with their Great Uncle Stan
(shortened to Grunkle Stan, voiced by Hirsch) for the summer in the town of Gravity Falls.
There, they helped run Stan’s “Mystery Shack”,
along with handyman Soos
Ramirez (Hirsch) and Wendy
Corduroy (Linda Cardellini).
While there, Dipper discovered a mysterious journal in the forest
that led to him and Mabel to begin to investigate the strange mysteries and
supernatural occurrences in the town.

Dipper, Wendy, Soos and Mabel on the trail of another mystery.

Gravity
Falls initially began airing on Disney Channel in
2012, with animation done by Rough
Draft Studios, Digital eMation
and Yearim Productions. As
each episode took six months to complete, Disney opted to air each completed
episode as its own event rather than waiting for a backlog to build up and air
it on a regular weekly schedule. As a result, there were often breaks between
each new episode. For season two, the show moved to Disney XD where it
aired until its completion in 2016 and continued to air in reruns, as well as
on the Disney Channel. Despite the show’s high ratings and critical acclaim,
Hirsch chose to end the show with “a real conclusion for the characters”,
however he was open to doing more episodes or specials. In 2018, Hirsch
announced that he would continue the show in a new graphic novel, Gravity Falls: Lost Legends.